By The Associated Press
MUSES MILLS, Ky. — A man suspected of fatally shooting two people and wounding a third before taking his ex-wife hostage was captured early Saturday, Kentucky State Police said.
Roy Pollard Jr. was arrested about three miles from the scene of the shootings in a remote area of Fleming County in eastern Kentucky, Trooper Ralph Lockard said.
The trooper declined to say who lived in the house where the shootings took place late Friday or what relationship Butler had to the victims.
The hostage, Bonnie Butler, was found about an hour before Pollard’s arrest when she went to a farm and called police, Lockard said.
Butler, 27, was talking with investigators and being treated after being outdoors overnight in temperatures in the low to mid-30s, Lockard said. Pollard also was being treated for exposure.
Investigators were still searching for a rifle Pollard had when he fled into a wooded area.
Lockard identified the people killed as Willa Marie Thompson, 52, and her nephew, Jason Lee Thompson, 25, both of Fleming County. Richard Anderson, 33, of Louisa, was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, Lockard said.
Dozens of police officers had spread out over two counties searching for Pollard after the shooting. Officers had used a SWAT team, dogs and helicopters in the overnight search.
The shootings took place about 45 miles northeast of Lexington.